Traditional Learning

to

e-learning
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We Still Follow
Socratic Method

Socratic method , is named

after the classical Greek
philosopher Socrates. It is a
form of inquiry and
discussion between
individuals, based on asking
and answering questions to
stimulate critical thinking
and to illuminate ideas. It is

dialectical
method, often involving
a

a discussion in which the

defence of one point of view
is questioned;
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Traditional
Education
Traditional education, is also known
as back-to-basics, conventional
education or customary education,
refers to long-established customs
found in schools that society
traditionally used. Some forms of
education reform promote the
adoption of progressive education
practices, a more holistic approach
which focuses on individual
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Are we Moving from to eEducation

E-learning is
the use of
electronic
technology in
teaching and
learning, and
accordingly is
a subset of
educational
technology.
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Why e-Learning
Our students
have changed
radically. They
are no longer
the people our
educational
system was
designed to
teach.
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E-learning Includes

E-learning includes information and

communication technology (ICT) in education,
EdTech, learning technology, multimedia
learning, technology-enhanced learning (TEL),
computer-based instruction (CBI), computer
managed instruction, computer-based training
(CBT), computer-assisted instruction or
computer-aided instruction (CAI), internet-based
training (IBT), flexible learning, web-based
training (WBT), online education, online
learning, virtual education, virtual learning
environments (VLE; which are also called
learning platforms), m-learning, and digital
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education.
All of these 6terms appear in articles

The Basis of E-learning

remain with Creating
Interactive Class Rooms

An interactive
classroom is a place
where learners are
encouraged to
communicate with
peers and teachers in a
meaningful way.

Creates useful learning

opportunities in which
the teacher presents
the material in a way
that is interactive and
therefore meaningful to
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What is EClassroom
E-classrooms provide a unique
opportunity to use technology to
implement prompt feedback and thereby
augment the current classroom
experience. Coordinating various
instructional streams with student
assessment and feedback will provide
the means for instructors to know when
and if their intended message was
communicated to their students,
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permitting instructors
and students to

Health (Medical) Informatics

a Rapidly developing science

Medical informatics is
the rapidly developing
scientific field that deals
with resources, devices
and formalized methods
for optimizing the
storage, retrieval and
management of
biomedical information
for problem solving and
decision making.
Edward Shortliffe, M.D., Ph.D.
What is medical informatics?
Stanford University, 1995.
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Health Informatics
include not only
Tools
computers but also

clinical guidelines,
formal medical
terminologies, and
information and
communication
systems. It is
applied to the areas
of nursing, clinical
care, dentistry,
pharmacy, public
health and
(bio)medical
research.
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What is EClassroom
Further, developing a flexible
instructional infrastructure will
create a bridge between course
objectives and course assessment,
classroom instruction and student
feedback, and seat-time and studytime. By developing this framework
within an e-classroom, information
can be gathered to measure
student, instructor and
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Computer-aided
instruction
These include computer-aided
instruction, learning about computers
and their applications, use of computerbased information resources, use of
computers as a tool and as a
mechanism for information
management, decision support and
communication.) While medical
informatics includes computer
applications, it is not limited only to the
use of computers, but
includes the
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knowledge, skills and attitudes involved

Why Interactive
Classroom
Cognitive psychologists:

learning is more productive when the acquired knowledge

occurs in an interactive environment.

Experimentally, it was found that students attending interactive

lectures learn more than students attending a traditional one.

This is because students in an interactive environment do

not spend the time in writing and copying the material from
the board as the case in traditional classrooms; instead,
they spend the time in thinking, understanding and asking
questions .

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Why Interactive Classroom

Efficient learning techniques became mandatory to keep up

with the demand of productive learning:

Significant improvements in computational power,

networking bandwidth,

storage capacity and graphical user interfaces

New teaching methods, such as long-distance and virtual

learning, where students are separated in space and/or time,
become increasingly common in many universities and
educational institutes

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Interactive
Classroom

Electronic classroom or simply E-classroom is

equipped with technologies that

capture classroom activities,

allow for audio and video recordings of lectures,

slides presentation,

capture the notes written by the lecturer, and

make class material available all the time.

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can be accessed and reviewed by students for missing

parts, studying difficult concepts or to prepare for exams.
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Components of Elearning Class Room

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Features of Interactive Classroom

For students, the new system encourages them to participate

and complete the coursework with more variety in learning
experiences, such as:
answering questions directly,
taking quizzes,
downloading audio and video files,
reviewing past lectures,
uploading due assignments and many other interesting
tasks.
Our system comes at low cost
It has the advantages of being flexible, easy to use, and
has the ability to run at any place within the campus where
a networking connection is available.
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How to Crete eclassrooms

Multimedia system
with portable
classroom sensors
is presented in this
paper with three
main components:
automatic
multimedia data
collection and
synchronization,
intelligent
multimedia
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Faculty
must should be provide
Faculty
identify the
electronic information
prerequisite
information and
skills that students
need to enable
them to access
electronic
information
sources, as well as
the course content
the student needs
to "know" and the
information the
student needs to
"know how to
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access"

We still continue to do with

traditional didactic
methods
Till recently, teachers
and their pupils
have been content with, and able to rely
on, the traditional resources that have
always been available in medical
education.
This involves teaching and learning
centred on the patient, and backed up by
lectures and tutorials. Other information
can be obtained from and journals. For a
number of reasons these resources are no
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longer sufficient

What is future of
e-learning

Today, a revolution is under

way in classrooms and dorm
rooms here. Students are
sitting at their computers
and learning medicine by
watching videotaped lectures
that contain graphics, fulllength animation and virtual
laboratories. Hand in hand
with these presentations,
they are manipulating
electronic notebooks to clip
and paste portions of the
visual or audio text they
consider most relevant.

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Cybernetics

Theory of Information

Communications
Coding
Algorithms
Probabilities and
Stochastic Processes

Theory of Control

Operations Research
Optimization
Management Science

Systems Analysis

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Students should develop

interest in electronic
information
Students' attitudes
toward their education
may also have to
change. Students need
to learn that they must
be information seekers
as well as information
managers. They also
need to acquire
knowledge about
relevant sources of
information, and the
skills to access
electronic information.
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Our Medical Teachers

to Adopt faster
Our teachers have to
adapt to newer
methods of training
and teaching the
students or else it is
difficult to cope up
with the speed of
changes taking place
in every branch of
Medicine. Medical
informatics certainly
helps to fill the gaps
in teaching methods
Training our Medicos
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perceptions of

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Orientation by
teachers
By making our primary
goal the
preparation of
is the primary
goal

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students to be medical
information managers,
we have a strong
rationale for the
inclusion of medical
informatics applications
into the curriculum.
This goal also provides
a criterion by which the
appropriateness of
curricular offerings can
be judged and the
outcomes of instruction
can be evaluated.

Continued efforts by
Faculty
Continued
efforts mustwill create
be made to teach
interest
them the skills
necessary so that they
can benefit from
available and evolving
technology. In addition,
we recommend that
students be introduced
to computer-based
testing early in their
medical school careers
to improve their
comfort levels with this
medium
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Computer are staying

The computer is here
to stay in one with
form or us..
another. It is unlikely

that any amount to

scientific data on its
reliability or validity
will influence use of
the medium.
However, used
appropriately
computers can be of
considerable
educational benefit
and will serve
medical students and
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Students
and
Teachers
Didactic vs
should
be familiar with
problem
solving

Competencies
Word processing
Information
retrieval
Information
management
Data analysis
Presentation
Communication
skills
E-mail, file
transfer, web
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Barriers to
Implementation of
Technology

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Indian Journal of Medical

Indian Journal
of
Informatics
(IJMI)

Medical Informatics
(IJMI) is an Open
Access, peerreviewed, online
journal adopting a
broad definition of
"medical
informatics" and
focusing on the
applied aspects of
computers to
healthcare
delivery.
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Information technology is not a

remedy for all ills in Medical
Education ?
Information
technology must
not be viewed as a
potential cure to
the current
ailments of medical
education. It may
be part of the
solution and should
be treated as such
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What Medical Council

of India Proposes

There are also plans

to set up
eClassrooms to
reduce the
requirement of
faculty and increase
the number of
students each
professor can take
at postgraduate
level.

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References

Google search freelance information,

Google images

Bassam Hammo (Ph.D)

Department of Computer Information Systems
King Abdullah II School for Information
Technology
Jordan UniversityAmman Jordan

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